Re: MSNBC raising awareness on RAT's

[Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () cisco com>]

Actually, they can often be detected through flow analysis coupled  
with behavioral anomaly-detection.  Arbor have commercialized this in  
a product called Peakflow/X.

On Nov 2, 2005, at 8:44 PM, Aditya Deshmukh wrote:

> > > ...or simply fear-mongering. :-)
> > >
> > > Personally, I prefer to think it is the former, and not the latter.
> > > I've seen remote-access trojans increasing at an alarming rate.
> > >
> > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9898957/
> > >
> > > - ferg
> >
> > We've been seeing this for a while - definitely agree with your
> > assessment.
>
> Right now they should be raising awareness about root kits
> Rather than RAT's. rat with rootkits is a really deadly combo
> And nothing can really detect it right now.
>
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